Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Boston, MA (Remote)

$350K/yr – $450K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Build a data driven marketing machine that spans brand, demand and digital commerce to drive revenue and long term value.

  • Growth ownership: lead paid media, SEO/SEM, social, influencer and affiliate programs to acquire and retain customers.
  • Transformation and leadership: establish a modern, cross functional marketing function aligned to business strategy and ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead the comprehensive marketing organization across all marketing disciplines, enhancing existing capabilities while building new ones.
  • Transform marketing into a proactive, data-driven, modern function aligned with overall business strategy.
  • Drive the company’s digital evolution, optimizing eCommerce platforms and digital customer touchpoints to maximize engagement, conversion, and revenue.
  • Oversee and scale performance marketing and digital programs across channels in partnership with sales.
  • Leverage data, analytics, and personalization strategies to deliver seamless, high-performing customer experiences.
  • Strengthen brand positioning and equity through integrated campaigns that build awareness, preference, and loyalty.
  • Expand reach to new audiences while maintaining strong relationships with existing customers.
  • Develop and scale customer acquisition strategies across paid media, SEO/SEM, social, influencer, and affiliate channels.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, sales, and operations to improve customer journeys, retention, and lifetime value.
  • Ensure marketing technology investments drive measurable ROI and support scalable growth.

Requirements

  • Strategic Marketing Leadership: 15+ years of marketing leadership experience with demonstrated success leading a comprehensive marketing organization for a multi-brand portfolio. Leverages best-in-class digital and traditional marketing tactics to support a business’s overarching strategy.
  • Performance Marketing: Experience building and leading a modern performance marketing organization. Expertise across digital marketing, eCommerce optimization, paid search, paid social, SEO, variable marketing, acquisition marketing, MarTech & marketing analytics activities.
  • Brand Evolution and Loyalty: A customer-obsessed marketer who shapes meaningful strategies to evolve a company’s brand and engage with a diverse consumer audience. Understands all aspects of the customer lifecycle and experience creating customer acquisition, upsell and cross-sell engines without sacrificing the loyalty of existing buyers.
  • Growth and Transformation: Track record of success building, upleveling and scaling strategic marketing plans and teams that support growth and transformation. Works-cross functionally across an organization to introduce and optimize new, proactive marketing tactics

Benefits

  • Health & wellness: Comprehensive and heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, plus on-site gym access, holistic wellness sessions, and group fitness classes
  • Time for you: Substantial Paid Time Off (PTO), and 11 paid holidays- including Juneteenth, Memorial Day, and Labor Day – and Summer Fridays. Plus- extensive parental leave, with up to 12-16 weeks paid leave at 100% base salary.
  • Travel more, spend less: 50% off our trips for you and a companion, 25% for additional immediate family members, and exclusive quarterly associate travel deals
  • Your future, secured: 401(k) with company match, life insurance, and disability coverage
  • Continuous growth: Tuition assistance for both professional and personal development, opportunities for professional development through oversees travel, and direct access to Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development.
  • Extra perks: Commuter benefits, FSA options, pet insurance, home & auto discounts, and paid volunteer time off to give back to the community
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Grand Circle Corporation

We’re in the business of changing lives—starting with yours. If you want your workdays to be exciting, challenging, and rewarding, consider a career at Grand Circle Corporation (GCC).GCC is the largest U.S. provider of international vacations for Americans aged 50 and older. We’re a family of three brands: Grand Circle Cruise Line, Overseas Adventure Travel, and Grand Circle Travel. Our small group sizes, unsurpassed value and excellence, and unique itineraries position us as the industry leader in travel and discovery.GCC works hard to provide a workplace that is stimulating, fulfilling, and meaningful for our associates—an environment where personal passion and professional potential are explored equally. Our associates are curious, compassionate, and hard-working people that strive for excellence. But we also like to have fun along the way. At GCC, we constantly challenge each other to try new things and find innovative ways of doing business. We encourage risk-taking in our associates—and we understand the value of learning from our mistakes.Global citizenship is central to our success. Through Grand Circle Foundation, we commit our time, energy, and resources to the communities in which we live and explore. There are volunteer opportunities throughout the year; in fact, more than 95% of our associates participate. Whether biking the Pan-Mass challenge to support cancer research or helping a homeless veteran move into a new apartment, our associates help change the world every day. This emphasis on maximizing each person’s potential in body, mind, and heart embodies the true spirit of GCC.We’ve been providing impactful, intercultural experiences for our travelers for decades. If you want a career that will change lives—both for our travelers and for yourself—view our open positions and submit an application today.To learn more about our company values and our history, visit www.gct.com/general/about-us.

Founded in 1978
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2K employees (114 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
429K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$284
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.7%
Direct
60.8%
Referral
7.6%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
60 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1